@Eric: Thanks! I actually thought about posting the previous scene where she dismembers her fellow prisoners and then Ethan dismembers her, but I thought it was too graphic. Then I read your piece...but I like this this scene is more conclusive.

@Tara Thanks! In the excerpt, she's about 20. But, she's telling the story when she's ~3300 years old. Her "Immortality" is wearing out and she's at the end of her line.And this is her descent into madness so there's nothing much redeeming until 300 years has passed and her real self starts emerging.

I see why you like her so; there is almost an innocence in her maliciousness. Childishness.

She really does feel young in this memory; a rebellious teen testing their mortality, wondering if life can truly defeat them. This has great voice; the old woman doesn't seem regretful at all; she's reliving her glory days.

@Donna: Well, after a couple hundred years of not aging they thought they were immortal, but then after a few thousand years, they start aging normally albeit slowly. And oh, she's regretful, but these were indeed her glory days when she was feared and revered.

@Raquel: Yeah, she has issues. In her present-day, most mortal think of The Immortals as we think of the Greek Gods today...mythological beings that didn't really exist. So they think she's just a crazy old lady who likes to rant about being the Sky Goddess just because the old pictures and statues look a little like her. Man, every time I write a comment about this it makes me want to finish writing this thing...